I’m like a kid in a candy store today with the loaner car I got from the BMW dealership while my car is being serviced: a new 335i sedan with ~4k miles on it. So that’s what like 300 bhp feel like? It goes 0-60 in 5 seconds. Wish I had the dough to buy this car! Seriously, I like to drive cars with guts and be aggressive with my shifting and cornering 🙂 My nearly 9 yr old 323i just doesn’t cut it in those depts. most days. Anyone else wish they drove at Le Mans in a rockin’ car?? Or the Autobahn!?!

Moving on, I’d have to say I’m in Andrea’s boat today–it’s only Tuesday and it feels like Thursday. Let’s get it over with already. Except for the car thing–can I drive it more, please?! (Yes, I’m obsessed.)

My day started well, and I had half of an apple before leaving the house (no pic); I knew I wouldn’t get to eat for awhile and was already hungry. I did a bit of extra running around to drop off Chris, Lily, and my car, but I got to the office by 9:30 and had my oats. Today I added a little brown sugar to the steel cut oats, almond milk, slivered almonds, raisins, cinnamon, and pinch of salt. The sweetness was nice, but not too strong.

Around 2 I headed to Freddy’s to pick up some allergy stuff for my mom and drop it by her place, as she was feeling icky today and ran out of med. She had just baked a pie, and I was on my way to the dentist, so I ended up swinging back by her house afterward to eat a piece! It is called Razzleberry by Marie Calendar, I think.

I headed back to work with Lily in tow (shh, don’t tell the car place I had her in the car 🙂 I did have the seat cover, at least), worked for about an hour, and had the rest of the cottage cheese that I made Chris leave for me 🙂

We left around 6 and stopped by my grandma’s house to pick up some Christmas tree ornaments on the way to dinner at Si Senor (aka Westside Maria). My grandma stopped getting a tree years ago and wanted to get rid of the rest of the ornaments she had. They are all really pretty, and some are really old. I feel special that she gave them to me rather than giving them away or chucking them (not beyond her to do that with sentimental items…). I’ll have to photograph some of them tomorrow if I have time to add them to the tree.

On to dinner–Chris and I split the Si Senor special: charcoal grilled steak and chicken, grilled mushrooms in a butter sauce (ew, hate fungus; Chris loves this dish, tho), rice, avocado, and a little slaw of some sort. Our fave waiter, Javier, also hooked us up with some roasted jalapenos. Ay, muy calor! Oh, and we had homemade flour tortillas that are the best ever!

I ate one tortilla, maybe 1/2 of the chicken, some steak, rice, two slices of avocado, and one of the jalapenos. I also had a Diet Coke since I knew I was going to work out and didn’t want any alcohol.

I drove like a frickin’ banshee on the way home (took the back way for more windy roads and opportunity to rocket away from full stops). Lily hung in there, and thankfully she does not get car sick or we would have been in some trouble!

After we got home I changed and left for the gym. I did a good round of legs, and hit up back, biceps, chest, triceps, shoulders, and abs with 1-2 exercises each. I totally feel like I haven’t been hitting the weights enough, so I figured I should at least moderately work all major muscle groups tonight. The gym was crowded, but not too bad. I was able to superset a lot of stuff.

Only thing that annoyed me was a chick who was totally hung up on herself, and who was pretty bold about it. She did split stretches on the mats for like 20 minutes (in teeeeeeny shorts, no less–peekaboo!), then proceeded to use free weights, leave them strewn all over the floor, and at the same time had her shit on 2 benches for like 20 minutes while she was elsewhere. Hm. She was also treating her friend like her servant: “get me more water” “where’s my towel?” I heard her chatting with some guys (could hear her over my music) and the only words coming out of her mouth were about the large amount of weight she does on various exercises, and that she’s strong for her size. Grrrreeeat. Excuse me while I curb my desire hurl on you. (aren’t I chipper?)

I hauled ass home (LOVE the sport shifter and paddle shifters on the steering wheel! Never had the paddles before and they are FUN), did some cleaning and lunch prep for tomorrow, and here I am now blogging at midnight! Yipes! Where’d the last two hours go?! I had a snack while doing the lunch prep: Dannon Light & Fit Vanilla mixed with a big spoon of pumpkin, some cinnamon, and some slivered almonds. Mmm…nice combo.

I also had a few spoons of ff cottage cheese around 11:45, as hunger bowled me over after I started writing this.

I’m not heading into work early, thankfully, but would like to watch some TV and hit the hay. What’s the weather like where you are? It is supposed to get colder and snow here this weekend! This had better not foil my breakfast plans with the ladies on Saturday, dammit!! SO looking forward to that 🙂